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EU Energy reform = give Britain access to the continent's cheap spare capacity | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: EU Energy reform = ? (4.00 / 2)

I was actually feeling a bit depressed this morning that the EU had apparently picked up the free markets reins and was trying to whip the non-cooperative horses into action (their way). What the hell is going on? Why all of a sudden all this "reform" talk, when it isn't reform at all, but destructive.

Thank you Jerome for taking them on, and showing them another view.

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia

by whataboutbob on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:10:31 AM EST

Re: EU Energy reform = ? (none / 0)

It's not "all of the sudden".

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:15:31 AM EST
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Re: EU Energy reform = ? (4.00 / 2)

That's the commission we have: very ideologically free-market with most of them appointed by right-wing governments.

That's why Migeru contends that the current paralysation of the EU is a good thing: anything those so-and-sos pass would be worse than nothing.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:17:17 AM EST
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Re: EU Energy reform = ? (4.00 / 3)

You saw what the European Parliament did to the Services Directive, too. And the paralysis is at the level of the council. Ironically, they are both right-wing and nationalist, so they appoint economic neoliberals to the commission, and then they get all protectionist at the level of the council. That's the way to push an agenda, oh yes.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:23:50 AM EST
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Re: EU Energy reform = ? (none / 1)

Me too !
Same as Migeru !
(and it rhymes!)

Paralysis is good when it affects this kind of bozos.

by Francois in Paris on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:34:09 AM EST
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Re: EU Energy reform = ? (none / 0)

It rhymes? Where are yo putting the strees on miGEru?

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:39:05 AM EST
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Re: EU Energy reform = ? (none / 0)

Me too, I'm all for gridlock!

And it rhymes?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 03:24:58 PM EST
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